Crossword-Solution: MIMESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mimesis | n. | Imitation; mimicry. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “MIMESIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Representation of the real world in literature and art | 1 answer |
| imitative representation of nature or human behaviour | 1 answer |
| the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature | 1 answer |
| the representation of another person's words in a speech | 1 answer |
| Mimicry | 22 answers |
| Perform-ing | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MIMESIS (5)
The word 'mimesis' has been invented for the express purpose of designating the animal's supposed faculty of adapting itself to its environment by imitating the objects around it, at least in the matter of colouring.
The enemy that eats you is not the only one to be deceived; mimesis must also play its colour-tricks on him whom you have to eat.
Now go and practice your mimesis in order to receive a welcome from the Anthophora or the Chalicodoma! A few hours spent with the insects themselves will turn any one into a hardened scoffer at these artless theories.
Such is the law of mimesis, which explains the Green Grasshopper by the green leaves in which this Locust settles and is silent as to the Crioceris, that coral-red Beetle who lives on the no less green leaves of the lily.
This is a Leucopsis, not one of whom enters the Wasps' nest.' 'Then mimesis...?' 'Mimesis is an illusion which we should do well to relegate to oblivion.' And, with the evidence, a whole series of conclusive examples, in front of him, my learned visitor admitted with a good grace that his first convictions were based on a most ludicrous foundation.
Quotes with MIMESIS (1)
If one were to reply that those who compose these books write them as fictions, and therefore are not obliged to consider the fine points of truth, I should respond that the more truthful the fiction, the better it is, and the more probable and possible, the more pleasing. Fictional tales must engage the minds of those who read them, and by restraining exaggeration and moderating impossibility, they enthrall the spirit and thereby astonish, captivate, delight, and entertain, …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).